Cookie Policy

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer or mobile device when you first visit a website. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site; for all other types of cookies, we need your permission. This site uses different types of cookies; some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.

We use two types of Cookies on the Platform: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies.” Session Cookies are temporary Cookies that remain on your device until you leave the website. A persistent Cookie remains on your device for much longer until you manually delete it (how long the Cookie remains will depend on the duration or “lifetime” of the specific Cookie and your browser settings).

What are Cookies used for?

We use cookies to analyse and improve the navigation and content of the website and to provide social media features. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. As a rule, we do not link IP addresses to anything that can identify you personally, ensuring you can remain anonymous. Nevertheless, we will attempt to use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to protect our services and other users. If there is a security breach, for example, we could use an IP address to trace the breach.

Managing Cookies

We use WeePieCookie to inform users and allow them to accept cookies when they first visit our website.

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. For details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

In the links below, you can find information on how to reset and manage cookies in different browsers. The exact procedure depends on which browser you are using. This may interfere with some of the functionality of the site. You can also reset cookies by clicking on

Log file information (e.g. IP addresses, server addresses, location, the type of computer, the type of browser, network, the address of the website from which you linked).

Tracking IP addresses (the computer’s internet address)

Monitoring how long a user spends on the website, page visited, interests, etc. This helps us evaluate the use of different parts of the website.

THIRD-PARTY SITES

Google

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). We also use Google Advertising Features for promotional campaigns, including remarketing We use this to show our ads on other websites based on your past visits to aspiringaccountants.co.uk. You can opt out of Google display and remarketing advertising by changing your Google Analytics ad settings.

Please be aware that some of the websites to which we provide links may collect personally identifiable information about you. We do not control these sites and are not responsible for the content or practices of third party websites. This policy does not cover such sites.

Aspiring Accountants is active on a range of social media platforms. We have no control over the use of cookies on these third-party sites. Please follow these links for more information on the privacy policies of the individual social media sites where Aspiring Accountants is active:

We embed videos from other YouTube channels using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playback of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.

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